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October 2018
DISCUSSION: Mental Illness, Race, and Incarceration – Nashville Sheriff Daron Hall
In Conversation with MHS Chair Jonathan Metzl, Responses by Leshuan Oliver of Campus Precinct & Community Relations, Vanderbilt University Police Department, Derek Griffith,Professor of MHS and Director, Center for Research on Men’s Health, Student Q&A
Find out more »KEYNOTE: American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference, “American Firearms and Mass Shootings: Mental Illness, Politics, and Policies,”
Jonathan Metzl addresses four assumptions that frequently arise in the aftermath of mass-shootings in the United States:
(1) that mental illness causes gun violence, (2) that a psychiatric diagnosis can predict
gun crime before it happens, (3) that shootings are the deranged acts of mentally ill loners, and (4) that gun control won’t prevent another Newtown.
November 2018
INVITED LECTURE: The Politics of Health
Slought and the Health Ecologies Lab are pleased to announce The Politics of Health, a conversation with Jonathan Metzl and others about the social and political construction of "health" on Thursday, November 8, 2018 from 6:30-8:30pm.
Find out more »December 2018
GALLERY TALK: “On Whiteness, Empathy, and Politics” at TFA Popup/Art Basel
The Fearless Artist Pop Up Gallery has featured the most exciting collective of emerging and undiscovered artists and galleries in the world during Art Basel/Miami Art Week to thousands of art fans.
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